Journal of Meditation based Psychological Counseling (J Medit Psychol Couns)
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Research Article

The importance of pilgrimage to the Sambo temples: Focusing on media articles

Abbot, Wonjeokjeongsa Temple, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Correspondence to Shin, Banghyun, E-mail: dobong1972@hanmail.net

Volume 34, Pages 59-70, August 2025.
Journal of Meditation Based Psychological Counseling 2025, 34, 59-70. https://doi.org/10.12972/mpca.2025.34.5
Received on August 21, 2025, Revised on August 27, 2025, Accepted on August 27, 2025, Published on August 31, 2025.
Copyright © 2025 Meditation based Psychological Counseling Association.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0).

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to systematically review articles related to ‘Sambo Temple Pilgrimage’ published in Korea to confirm the importance of Sambo Temple Pilgrimage as revealed in the media. To this end, 47 articles published in Korea from September to November 2021 were selected and analyzed using the method of systematic literature review. The results of this study are as follows. First, as a result of analyzing the newspapers that published articles related to Sambo Temple Pilgrimage, it was found that many articles were published in the ‘Modern Buddhist Newspaper’. In addition, as a result of classifying the topics of the articles based on the titles of the articles and the summary of the articles by the research team of this study, ‘The meaning and value of Sambo Temple Pilgrimage’ and ‘Interviews with people related to Sambo Temple Pilgrimage’ were the most common. Second, as a result of analyzing the frequency of core keywords in articles related to the Sambo Temple pilgrimage, ‘Sambo Temple Thousand-mile Pilgrimage’ was the most frequent, followed by ‘Buddhist Revival’, ‘Sangwolgyeolsa’, and ‘Pilgrimage’. Based on these results, implications and discussions on the importance of the Sambo Temple pilgrimage revealed in the media were presented.

Keywords

Sambo Temple, pilgrimage, Buddhist revival, Sangwolgyeolsa, press articles

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